Namila Benson

Namila Benson is an Australian-born Papua New Guinean radio broadcaster, podcaster and television presenter.[1] She is a Tolai woman from Rabaul[2][3] in the East New Britain Province in Papua New Guinea, and was born in Melbourne, Australia.

Namila Benson
Born	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Occupation	Radio and TV presenter at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Years active	1994–present
Parent(s)	Warium Benson (father)

Since starting in radio at Melbourne community broadcaster, 3CR, Benson has spent over two decades [4] working across a number of media platforms, including as a field reporter on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) television arts show, Art Nation,[5] as a producer and presenter on Radio Australia's Pacific Service[6] and presenter on 3RRR FM radio.[7] In 2017, she began working as a producer on the Radio National mornings program, Life Matters.[8] In 2019, she moved across to presenting and co-producing the national visual arts program, The Art Show, on ABC Radio National.[9][10]

In April 2021, the ABC announced that Benson would host the TV arts show, Art Works.[11][12] The show is broadcast weekly on ABC TV Plus and ABC iview,[13] and the first episode aired on 5 May 2021.[14]

Benson has acted as a mentor to help young people get into media in Australia and abroad.[15][16] She has run workshops at radio stations 3CR, SYN, PBS 106.7FM and 3RRR.[17] In 2015, she went to Papua New Guinea to run media training with producers, presenters and journalists from the National Broadcasting Corporation of Papua New Guinea (NBC).[18]

Benson's father, Warium Benson, was a broadcaster with Radio Australia, between 1975 and 2012.[19]